vSphere and HA
We have purchased VMWare essentials plus to provide 2 physical hosts with virtual machines. 1 physical host would be used as the primary host with primary servers and the secondary server as failover....
View ArticleHP NC380T Recognized by hardware but not by ESXi
I'm running ESXi 4.1 Update 3 on a lab machine. I recently purchased some HP NC380T Dual Gigabit network cards and installed them. I have no issues seeing the cards in BIOS, and just about everywhere I...
View ArticleUnable to Access server
I have just installed ESXi 5.1, then i changed the vlan ID of Management Network from all (4096) to 10, but when i clicked OK my vsphere client stopped responding and now i am unable to access or ping...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 Host doesn't boot up
Hello everyone, i got a problem with our ESXi running 4.1.0 build-260247 on HP ML350 G5.After a problem with the mainboard (was replaced) ESXi doesn't boot up anymore. Since i am not an expert i hope...
View ArticlevCenter 4.1 and View connection server on the same machine?
Hello I have 2 hosts with vmware ESXi 4.1 managed with vCenter 4.1 running on Win2008 R2. Is it VM.I have another VM on Win2008 R2 and there is installed view connection server for VDI. Is it possible...
View ArticleCan´t change/display network adapter configuration on HP Blades BL685c G7
We have a problem when we try to edit the properties of a network adapter. We can´t change the network speed configuration. It appears as empty... We only realized this erro in: HP Blades BL685c G7...
View ArticleNTLRD missing when rebooting from a snapshot..!!!
Hi, I took a snapshot of a VM before performing a change activity. later during upgrade , the application requested for a restart.On restart the machine gives an NTLDR missing error. i have checked...
View ArticleHigh DAVG Values in rather small environment
Hello Everyone, I'm looking if I can get some advice from your group on how to handle a rather frustrating situation. In one of my branch offices, I have a rather small VMWare ESXi 4.1 environment...
View Articlequery on nic teaming
Hey all, was just wondering is it really necessary to team the nics. I have 3 cards running in parallel to a vswitch. The way I understand it, it goes virtual to physical to virtual to physical....
View Articleanother query on drivers
Hey guys, it looks like I am going to need to add HP nic drivers to an already live esxi 4.1 installation. Didn't see an option for doing this remotely as HP says the drivers have to be on a cd in the...
View Articleshow process id for UDP socket in esxi 4.1
How do you find out which process is using a UDP port in ESXI 4.1 ? 3 of my ESXi 4.1.0 (260247) servers are sending UDP traffic to 50.17.133.11 (ec2-50-17-133-11.compute-1.amazonaws.com), destination...
View ArticlePerformance considerations
Hello A bit of background.... We run something like a private cloud - there's no self provisioning or anything but there's a shared infrastructure which includes 30 ESXi 4.1 hosts, shared storage and...
View ArticleDeploy an OVF with Thin Provissioning ESXI 4.0
I have made an OVF template using Vsphere 4.0 from an ESXI 4.0 server. It is thin provissioned. When I deploy this template to another ESXI 4.0 server it always comes up thick and I can't see anywhere...
View ArticleVM guest unexpected restart
\[Env] ESX Server 4.1 U1, Guest OS: RHEL 5 64bit We have a vm guest that always reported unexpected restart but can find an issue within, but to make sure I have here the vmlogs of that guest for...
View ArticleC# API for Working with ESXi 4.1
Hi all, Not sure if this has been asked before or not, when searching for it, I get alot of unrelated results but here goes. I am in the process of building a support tool and would like to integrate...
View ArticleUpgrage 4.1 to 5.1
I have two host that are running esxi 4.0 update 3 and 4.1 update2. I would like to upgrade to 5.1. Do I need to install the patches or will the update bring everything I need? Thank you
View Articlelun input/output error
hi, we have some problems with a lun. each attemtpt to start a vm, which use this lun, ends with following exception: Failed to open...
View ArticleVM providing External Database behind the vCenter Server built with e1000...
All other VMs were defined with VMXNET3 network adapters. Is there a compelling reason to change the network adapter on this VM to a VMXNET3 (other than simple consistency)? What would be the best way...
View ArticleUnable To Install ESXi 4.1 with RAID0. HDD Does not come up during the...
Experts, I have HP Proliant server. I have configure raid 0 on this. When I install ESX4.1 it does not detect the HDD.It just say 9.5 gigs of free space is required but it does not show the Raid0...
View ArticleNeed to migrate to new FC storage, help!
I have a fibre channel storage unit connected directly to a BladeCenter chassis and it's blades are running ESXi.I need to migrate all of the hosts over to the new storage but it looks like my only...
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